<p>The Castle of Zahara de los Atunes and Palace of Jadraza  is a medieval castle on Spain&#39;s coast. Located in Barbate and Zahara de los Atunes, Spain, it protected the local Almadraba tuna traps as well as having a wider strategic role.</p><br>
<p>Ti is known by several alternative names including Fortaleza o Castillo de la Chanca, Fortaleza y Casa Chanca, Palacio de las Pilas, Castillo de Jadraza & Palacio Real de la Almadraba.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1294, King Sancho IV of Castile granted a licence to Don Alonso Pérez de Guzmán to build traps for tuna fishing in reward for his heroic defense of Tarifa. This activity in this area has a history dating back to Phoenician and Roman times. Guzman fisheries in Zahara de los Atunes and Conil de la Frontera were for centuries the most productive in Europe provoking the development of important auxiliary buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Palace served three functions: as a fortified castle to protect against Barbary pirates, a residential palace during the Tuna Season and a processing plant to deal with the tuna.</p><br>
<p>Its location at a strategic point of the Strait of Gibraltar has been given prominence in numerous historical events, and it maintains a continued presence in coastal mapping.</p><br>
<p>In the twentieth century the building was used by the fishing industry before becoming a barracks. The building was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>Building is a square structure defined by four defensive walls with parapet surmounted with a narrow walkway. In the north-west corner is the so-called Torre de Poniente which has an inner chamber beneath a high domed roof also with a parapet. In the north-east are the remains of de la Torre de Levante. Both towers were designed as corbelled spaces to overlook the defensive curtain walls.</p><br>
<p>The main gateway is located in the west wall, the two sea gates are in the south, which originally also provided access to large patio inner enclosure of the building. In the twentieth century New Gate was added in the north wall, where there are also various other piercings introduced for practical reasons as the use of the building developed over time.</p><br>
<p>The factory is made of regular masonry blocks with lime grout and pebbles. The corners boast reinforced stonework. The three original stone doors were of generous proportions with arches and keystones. At the sea gates, two separate buttresses of considerable thickness are arranged inward to reinforce them in their defensive mission.</p><br>
<p>The Church of San Dionisio  is a church located in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain. It was built in the late 15th century in Gothic-Mudéjar style, although its interior was later renovated in Baroque style  by architects Diego Antonio Díaz and Pedro de Silva. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1964.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The parish was established by Alfonso X the Wise in the name of Saint Denis as the city was returned to Christian rule on Saint Denis&#39;s Day in 1264.</p><br>
<p>The church has a basilica plan, divided into three naves by tall and simple pillars adorned with Almohad decorations. The arcades (aside from those near the high altar) are ogival. The naves end with apses with Baroque altars, including the high altar which dates to the pre-Baroque renovation.</p><br>
<p>The side chapels are in Baroque style. The chapel of the Christ of the Water includes an image of Jesus from the 15th century. The tower known as Torre de la Atalaya was also built in the fifteenth century. Although this is attached to the shurch it was a civilian construction intended to serve as a watchtower for both fires and attack and to hold the town&#39;s clock. The tower has been separately listed from the church as being of cultural interest. The tower was first mentioned in 1447 and the clock was installed in 1454 and the tower was first used as a watchtower in 1484.</p><br>
<p>The Church of Saint Michael  is a church in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1931.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Church of Saint Michael started its life in the end of the 15th century. A plaque at the door of its Gothic facade is dated 1484. It is believed that the church was commissioned by the Catholic Monarchs when they visited the city in 1484. Previously, the area was served by an old hermitage. Its construction, however, would last several centuries resulting in an excellent cathedral-like set where latest gothic elements and other ones typical from beginning and full renaissance and baroque.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It has rectangular floor, divided in three naves, the central one taller than the lateral ones, by pilasters from a flowery gothic style. It is considered one of the best temples of the city of Jerez.</p><br>
<p>Torre del Almirante  is a tower located in Algeciras, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The date of this tower is unknown and it pre-dates many other towers that were built around the Bay of Gibraltar and south of Algeciras as batteries and watchtowers. This tower was used by the Admiral Egidio Boccanegra in the 14th century during the Siege of Algeciras (1342-1344). The tower appears on a map of 1608 and it was improved after 1704 following the Capture of Gibraltar when the enclave was seen as a potential beachhead for British forces. The tower was put to good use during the Battle of Algeciras in 1801. The tower was then the base for four 24 pounder guns which guarded the northern approach to Algeciras. The tower was used for machine guns during the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The ruins are now integrated into the park known as Paseo Cornisa.</p><br>
<p>The Castle of San Sebastián  is a fortress located in Cádiz, Spain, at the end of La Caleta beach on a small island separated from the main city. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the classical tradition of the location of the fortress, there was a Temple of Kronos, a Titan of the Greek gods, the father of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter and Hera.</p><br>
<p>In 1457, a chapel on the island was raised by a Venetian boat crew recovering from the plague.</p><br>
<p>In 1706, a castle was constructed, which resulted in a fortified enclosure of an irregular plane. It defended the northern flank of the city from attack. At the base of the lighthouse was a watchtower from the Muslim period. The lighthouse has an iron structure designed by Rafael de la Cerda in 1908 and is the second electric powered lighthouse in Spain. The tower rises to 41 meters above the sea.</p><br>
<p>Interestingly, in 1811 the Maltese navy arrived with the famous POW/rebel Junta of Buenos Aires, Juan Bautista Azopardo. He was housed in the fortress until 1815, when they suspected a leak and transferred him to the military prison in Ceuta.</p><br>
<p>In 1860, a levee was built to serve as a link between the island and the city. On June 25 of 1985, Castillo de San Sebastian was declared a cultural landmark.</p><br>
<p>The Dvinitsa  is a river in Kharovsky, Sokolsky, and Mezhdurechensky Districts of Vologda Oblast in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Sukhona River. It is 174 km long, and the area of its basin 2,400 km&sup2;. The main tributaries of the Dvinitsa are the Shorega, the Korbanga, and the Votcha .</p><br>
<p>The source of the Dvinitsa is located in the south of Kharovsky District, southeast of the town of Kharovsk. The Dvinitsa flows south, passes Semigorodnyaya railway station, enters Sokolsky District and turns southeast. It crosses the district and, close to the border with Mezhdurechensky District, accepting the Votcha from the left, the Dvinitsa makes a U-turn and flows northeast. At the point it accepts the Bolshoy Nodimets from the right, it sharply turns southeast again. The mouth of the Dvinitsa is in the village of Dvinitsa. The last stretch of the Dvinitsa upstream from the mouth serves as a border between Sokolsky (west) and Mezhdurechensky (east) Districts.</p><br>
<p>Until the 1990s, the Dvinitsa was used for timber rafting.</p><br>
<p>The Chase&#39;s Theater and Riggs Building, also known as the Keith-Albee Theater and the Keith-Albee Building, was a historic building located at 1426 G Street and 615-627 15th Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the cities Downtown area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Beaux-Arts theater was originally designed by Jules Henri de Sibour, and built in 1912, for Plimpston B. Chase. He sold the theater to B.F. Keith in 1913.</p><br>
<p>It was a part of the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit, which became a part of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum chain, and then RKO Pictures. William Howard Taft attended the opening in 1912, and Woodrow Wilson regularly attended.</p><br>
<p>Entertainers included: Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallée, Laurel and Hardy, and ZaSu Pitts.</p><br>
<p>In 1956, RKO sold the building, to Morris Cafritz for $1.55 million. In 1959, he offered to sell the building to the city as a performing arts center, but the city would not assume the $1.5 million mortgage.</p><br>
<p>The movie theater closed in 1978; it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In March 1978, the United States Commission of Fine Arts recommended saving the facade of the Keith-Albee Theater and National Metropolitan Bank.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the D.C. Superior Court halted demolition of the Keith Albee building, but then allowed demolition of the interior. The developer said he would preserve the historic facade of the Keith-Albee theater building, if he could demolish Rhodes&#39; Tavern.</p><br>
<p>It is now the Metropolitan Square office building.</p><br>
<p>The Harlyberg, at, is the highest hill of the Harly Forest, and rises in the district of Goslar in southeastern Lower Saxony, central Germany.</p><br>
<p>Sometimes the term Harlyberg is used as a synonym for the entire Harly Forest (Harly-Wald), but this ignores the fact that there are other summits in that forested hill range.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The hill is located just under 2 kilometres northwest of Vienenburg. It may be reached on various forest tracks and hiking trails that run through the Harly Forest - for example on the Kammweg ("ridgeway"). Almost exactly 2 kilometres southeast is the site of an old castle, the Harlyburg.</p><br>
<h2>Harly Tower</h2><br>
<p>On the summit of the Harlyberg stands the Harly Tower (Harlyturm), an observation tower that was re-opened to tourists in 1986 after decades of decay and following major restoration. It is open when the flag is raised above its roof.</p><br>
<p>From the observation platforms – one glazed and one open one – of the Harly Tower there are views of the Harz Mountains to the south, the Elm to the north and the Huy to the east.</p><br>
<p>The Harly Forest  is a hill range up to 256 m above NN in the district of Goslar in southeastern Lower Saxony, Germany.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The low ridge is situated in the northern foothills of the Harz mountain range, stretching southeast of the Innerste Uplands from the Salzgitter Hills to the Oker river. It is located about 11 km—as the crow flies—northeast of Goslar and immediately north-northwest of the municipality of Vienenburg, surrounded by the villages of Weddingen, Lengde and Beuchte (all part of the Schladen-Werla municipality). The range is about 6 km long by 1 km wide and its eastern edge overlooks the Oker valley. It may be reached via the A 395 motorway from Brunswick, the B 241 and B 82 highways, as well as by several side roads and tracks branching off those roads.</p><br>
<p>The highest hill in the Harly Forest is the Harlyberg, roughly 256 metres high, atop which an observation tower, the Harly Tower (Harlyturm), stands.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The Harly is a tectonic salt formation. In the technical language of geologists the Harly Forest is classed as a "Geological Anticline" (Geologischer Schmalsattel). Ecologically the Harly Forest is a near-natural hillside forest (naturnaher Hangwald) on warm-dry chalk and silicate habitats.</p><br>
<h2>Harly Castle</h2><br>
<p>The southeastern edge of the ridge lies immediately above the Oker Valley and from 1203 was the construction site of an Imperial castle, built during the German throne quarrel between the Welf and Hohenstaufen dynasties. It was erected at the behest of by the Welf king Otto of Brunswick to control the trade route to the Imperial City of Goslar, whose citizens had allied with his rival Philip of Swabia. After Philip&#39;s assassination, Otto, crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1209, stayed at the fortress several times.</p><br>
<p>Upon Otto&#39;s death at the nearby Harzburg in 1218, Harly Castle passed to his Welf heirs. At the 1290 Imperial diet in Erfurt, the Hildesheim prince-bishop Siegfried II of Querfurt accused Duke Henry I of Brunswick of using its favourable location for ambushes and highway robberies of bypassing merchants. He had the castle besieged for several months and eventually completely slighted.</p><br>
<h2>Potash works</h2><br>
<p>A vestige of former mining activity in the area is the historic Vienenburg potash works and fertilizer plant with its old shafts: numbers I, II and III. In operation from the 1880s, the mine was closed after a massive brine inrush in 1930. The former Cistercian monastery of Wöltingerode, located on the southern perimeter of the ridge west of Vienenburg, and its abbey distillery are also worth seeing.</p><br>
<p>The Equitable Co-operative Building Association is a historic building, located at 915 F Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Penn Quarter neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was designed by Frederick B. Pyle, and Arthur B. Heaton in the Neoclassical style.</p><br>
<p>It was the headquarters of the Equitable Co-operative Building Association, of John Joy Edson.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, and is a contributing property to the Downtown Historic District. The 2009 property value of 915 F Street, NW is $3,155,100.</p><br>
<p>It was owned by Abdul Khanu who operated the Platinum nightclub, Club Bounce.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, Peter Andrulis III bought it and attempted to operate a Museum of Arts and Sciences.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, Douglas Development Corp. bought it.</p><br>
<p>The Architectural drawings are held at the Library of Congress.</p><br>
<p>The Rotenberg is a hill range, up to 317.3 m high, in the Lower Saxon Hills in southeastern Lower Saxony, Germany.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Rotenberg ridge is oriented northwest-southeast and measures about 14 kilometres long by 2 kilometres wide. It lies on the boundary of the districts of Osterode am Harz and Göttingen in the southeastern corner of the Lower Saxon Hills. It is located on the southwestern Harz Foreland roughly between Wulften to the northwest, Hattorf am Harz and Pöhlde to the north, Silkerode to the east, Rhumspringe and Gieboldehausen to the south and Bilshausen to the west. Somewhat further away are Osterode am Harz to the north, Herzberg am Harz to the northeast, Bad Lauterberg to the east, Duderstadt to the south, Göttingen to the southwest and Northeim to the northwest.</p><br>
<p>According to the official classification of natural regions of Germany the ridge belongs to the landscape unit of the Eichsfeld Basin in the Weser-Leine Uplands.</p><br>
<p>The Rotenberg is surrounded by the following other ranges: the Harz Mountains to the north and, somewhat further away, the Ohm Hills to the southeast and the Göttingen Forest to the southwest.</p><br>
<p>The Rotenberg hills lie on the watershed between the Oder and Beber rivers in the north and the Rhume and Eller rivers in the south. These rivers and the small streams that rise in the hills belong to the catchment area of the Leine, several kilometres to the west.</p><br>
<h2>Hills</h2><br>
<p>The hills in and near the Rotenberg include the:</p><br>
<p>Rotenberg (317,3 m) – southeast of Pöhlde, near the border with Thuringia</p><br>
<p>Schiebehalbe (290 m) – southwest of Pöhlde</p><br>
<p>Heimkenberg (274,1 m) – south of Hattorf</p><br>
<p>Kethanteichskopf (260 m) – west of Pöhlde</p><br>
<p>Rollershauser Kopf (245 m) – southwest of Hattorf</p><br>
<p>Hohe Warte (241 m) – north of Wollershausen</p><br>
<p>Finnenkopf (238 m) – southeast of Pöhlde</p><br>
<p>Bornberg (237 m) – northeast of Rhumspringe</p><br>
<p>Spitzenröder Berg (239 m) – east of Rhumspringe</p><br>
<p>Bilshäuser Kopf (236 m) – east of Bilshausen</p><br>
<p>Mittelberg (236 m) – east of Wollershausen</p><br>
<p>Thiershäuser Berg (215 m) – north of Gieboldehausen</p><br>
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<p>Transylvania Mounds is an archaeological site in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana with components from the Coles Creek CE and Plaquemine/Mississippi periods . It is the type site for the Transylvania Phase  of the Tensas Basin Plaquemine Mississippian chronology.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>A large multimound site with two plazas and possibly as many as twelve mounds. The largest mound at the site was 34 ft in height and was flanked on two sides by the plazas. Several of the mounds are no longer visible because intensive European farming methods have leveled them. The ones that do remain are 18 ft, 9 ft, 6.5 ft, 3.5 ft, and 1.5 ft in height. The site underwent limited archaeological testing in the 1960s. These tests dated occupation of the site about 700–1200 CE during the Coles Creek period. Other ceramics discovered at the site were dated to 1200–1541 during the Plaquemine Mississippian period. A series of radiocarbon samples returned dates between 1048 and 1411 CE. These investigations prompted archaeologists to use the Transylvania site as the type site for the Transylvania Phase (1500-1680 CE) of the local Tensas Basin Plaquemine Mississippian chronology. When the site was mapped in 2000 investigators were able to identify six remaining mounds.</p><br>
<p>Sundown Mounds is an multimound archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana from the Early Coles Creek culture.</p><br>
<p>It is the type site for the Sundown Phase (600-800 CE) of the Tensas Basin and Natchez Bluff Coles Creek chronology.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site is located on the western bank of Little Choctaw Bayou and has three platform mounds that form a triangle surrounding a plaza, a typical Coles Creek arrangement. Mound A, the largest mound, is a 11 ft in height and its base measures 190 ft by 180 ft and a summit measuring 60 ft by 60 ft. Mound B, the second largest, is located 400 ft to the northwest of Mound A. It is 8 ft in height with base measurements of 130 ft by 100 ft and its summit 65 ft by 33 ft. Mound C is 7 ft with base measurements of 100 ft by 80 ft with a dome-shaped summit. Mounds A and B had ramps from their summits down to the plaza. The mounds were constructed sometime between 750-800 CE, but the site was occupied during most of the Coles Creek period from 700 to 1200.</p><br>
<p>Flowery Mound is an archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana with components from the Late Coles Creek and Plaquemine-Mississippian culture which dates from approximately 950–1541.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site is located on Andrews Bayou. The mound itself is a very well preserved platform mound measuring 10 ft in height and 165 ft by 130 ft at its base and a summit measuring 50 ft square. Core samples taken during investigations at the site have revealed the mound was built in a single stage and because the fill types can still be differentiated it suggests the mound is relatively young. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal found in a midden under the mound reveals that the site was occupied from 996–1162 during the Coles Creek period. The mound was built over the midden between 1200–1541 during the Plaquemine/Mississippian period. This was further confirmed by stylistic analysis of pottery found at the site.</p><br>
<p>Scharhörn is an uninhabited island in the North Sea belonging to the city of Hamburg, Germany. The once most important daymark on the north sea coast, the Scharhörnbake, was maintained here by the City of Hamburg from 1440 to 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Scharhörn lies by the mouth of the Elbe, approximately northwest of Cuxhaven and northwest of the nearby island of Neuwerk. It is a part of Zone 1 of the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park. Aside from a nature reserve warden, the island has no permanent residents.</p><br>
<p>Together with the artificial island of Nigehörn the island lies on a large sandbank. Historically the whole area including the reef was called Scharhörn and the sandbank Scharhörnplate. After the human supported formation of the island in the 1920s and finally with the creation of Nigehörn on the same sandbank, the name Scharhörn was only used for the island. Though Scharhörn is generally flood-safe, the 6 m banks of the island are not protected, so the island faces permanent loss of land on the western side as storm floods gradually shift the sandbank eastward.</p><br>
<p>The sandbank on which Scharhörn and Nigehörn lie is a European Union Natura 2000-designated bird sanctuary, tended to by the environmental group Verein Jordsand. The area, known as Scharhörnplate, is around long and wide with an area of approximately 500 hectare. Public access to the island is forbidden, except on official tours or by prior arrangement with the warden.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1937, the island became part of the Prussian Province of Hanover as a result of the Greater Hamburg Act. The island changed hands again in 1947, when it became part of the newly-drawn state of Lower Saxony, and again in 1969, when it was returned under a treaty to the control of Hamburg for the purpose of constructing a proposed deepwater port on Scharhörn and nearby Neuwerk. The plans foresaw the construction of a mound of land built from dredged sand, which was to be safe from the storm floods of the North Sea and connected to the mainland via a causeway from Scharhörn to Neuwerk to Cuxhaven. The plan was never realised, plagued by protests, high costs, and low levels of public support, but nevertheless remains included in the land use plan of Hamburg.</p><br>
<h2>Shipwrecks</h2><br>
<p>Nigehörn is an uninhabited artificial island in the North Sea belonging to the German city of Hamburg.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Located by the mouth of the Elbe, Nigehörn lies on the same sandbank as Scharhörn, about northwest of Neuwerk and northwest from Cuxhaven on the mainland. The island is a part of Zone 1 of the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park.</p><br>
<p>Rising about above sea level, it is not protected from storm surges, and is at risk of coastal erosion, especially on the western side.</p><br>
<p>The sandbank on which Scharhörn and Nigehörn lie is a European Union Natura 2000-designated bird sanctuary, tended to by the environmental group Verein Jordsand. The area, known as Scharhörnplate, is around long and wide with an area of approximately 500 hectare. Unlike Scharhörn, where visitors may obtain official permission to visit, public access to Nigehörn is strictly forbidden.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and history</h2><br>
<p>Nigehörn was constructed in 1989 to compensate for ongoing land loss on nearby Scharhörn, which threatened to deprive shorebirds of important breeding grounds. Approximately 1.2 e6m3 of sand were deposited on the sandbank by hydraulic fill to create the core of the new island.</p><br>
<p>In order to catch and hold down flying sand, barriers made from brushwood were arranged in a double-circle around the core, with "rays" extending outward from the circles. Three eastward-pointing double-bows of similar construction were built across the core to trap and retain sand in the heart of the island. Traces of these patterns can still be seen on aerial photographs of the island today, though they are by now weathered, sand-covered, and (in the western part of the island) eroded.</p><br>
<p>The newly constructed island measured 30 hectare in total area. As pioneer flora began to colonise the island, helping the pre-existing structures to hold down sediments, Nigehörn began to grow naturally into the surrounding tidal mudflats. In this manner, the area of the island has increased over time to approximately 50 hectare.</p><br>
<p>Südfall  is a small island in the Wadden Sea off the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, one of the ten German Hallig islands. It has a permanent population of two people. It covers an area of 0.56 km&sup2; and is administratively part of Pellworm Municipality.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prior to the Grote Mandrenke flood in 1362, the area comprising the present-day island was a part of the former island of Strand in Edoms Hundred. As a result of the flood, which laid waste to much of Strand and submerged the city of Rungholt, three small islands were removed from the area of Strand: Südfall, Nübell (or "Nubel") and Nielandt. Over time, Südfall and Nübell were gradually eroded into the sea, and their inhabitants resettled on Nielandt, renaming it Südfall. In the catastrophic Burchardi flood of 1634, Strand was torn asunder by the sea and its largest settlements were destroyed, causing a great loss of life and property. Nearby Südfall, however, weathered the disaster. Its inhabitants made a living primarily by way of agriculture and fishing, supplemented by occasional beachcombing. The twelve families who lived on the island perished in the Great Hallig Flood on 3–4 February 1825. The three warfts on the western side of the island were totally submerged, and the total area of the island was halved. The single warft that remains on the island today was constructed in 1828. Ownership of the island has changed hands numerous times since then.</p><br>
<p>In 1910, the Countess Diana von Reventlow-Criminil purchased the island to spend her retirement years on it. After this, the Dethleffsen family rented out the island for a 50-year term. In 1921, Andreas Busch from Nordstrand discovered remnants of canal locks in the intertidal zone (Watt) around Südfall. He mapped the area and discovered numerous traces of the area&#39;s former inhabitants, such as wells, fields, paths, and graves. Based on these findings, it was determined that Rungholt was situated near present-day Südfall prior to its destruction in 1362. Since 1960, the number of times per year that the island has flooded has increased from around 30 to nearly 70.</p><br>
<h2>Modern times</h2><br>
<p>Today, Südfall is part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Since 1957, the environmental group Verein Jordsand has served as the island&#39;s caretaker. was granted official environmental protection in 1959, and is now part of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, which is in turn part of the larger Wadden Sea UNESCO World Heritage Site.</p><br>
<p>One house, inhabited by a water-warden and his wife, and several surrounding buildings are situated on the lone wharf on the island. A bird-conservation station and a watchpost/radio station of the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger) are maintained on the island.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>With permission from the National Park Service, Südfall is reachable from Nordstrand at low tide by foot or on horseback over the intertidal zone. In the summertime, the island is visited thrice per week by a ship from Pellworm. As Südfall is in the First Protection Zone (Schutzzone 1) of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, accessing the island is otherwise prohibited.</p><br>
<h2>Nature</h2><br>
<p>The island has one main tidal creek (Priel), which flows from the western portion of the island to a wide mouth on the eastern shore, emptying into the Wadden Sea. The salt marshes on the island have lain ungrazed for many years, leading to the rebounding of marshplants such as Armeria maritima (Strand-Grasnelke), Artemisia maritima (Strand-Beifuß), Limonium vulgare (Gewöhnlicher Strandflieder), and Aster tripolium (Strand-Aster).</p><br>
<p>The intertidal zone around Südfall is protected from dredging to prevent the damage or destruction of cultural traces and artifacts.</p><br>
<p>Sudfall P5232285jm.JPGView of the warft and its buildings</p><br>
<p>Hallig Suedfall2.JPGPath from Nordstrand to Südfall at low tide</p><br>
<p>Krabbenkutter Ivonne Pellworm P5242390jm.JPGA shrimp trawler near Südfall</p><br>
<p>Unspunnen Castle is a castle, now in ruins, located in the municipality of Wilderswil in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. The castle, likely constructed in the early 12th century, overlooks the city of Interlaken.</p><br>
<p>Today, Unspunnen is home to Unspunnenfest, a festival of traditional Swiss competitions held in the fields below the ruins.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The castle was the center of a 13th-14th century fief of an Oberland barons, though the name of the barons or the castle builder is unknown. The cave castle of Rotenfluh (first mentioned in 1298 as munitio immersive balma Rothenfluo dicta) at Tschingelsatz and Unspunnen Castle (first mentioned in 1232 as Uspunnun) were used to guard the late medieval Lütschinenbrücke, a bridge at Gsteig near Interlaken. In the 13th Century it belonged to the Herrschaft of Burkart of Thun, who acquired it through his 1224 marriage to the family of the Baron of Wädenswil. A division of inheritance, possibly in 1280, cut the Herrschaft in half, the Baron of Eschenbach got the castle and the surrounding villages while the Baron of Weissenburg got Rotenfluh Castle along with other villages. After the assassination of Albert I of Germany by his nephew John in 1308 the Habsburg in Austria claimed the Eschenbach lands, but in 1318 they pledged these lands to the Baron of Weissenburg as collateral. In 1332, the peasants of the surrounding villages unsuccessfully rose up against Johann of Weissenburg and the leaders were imprisoned in the castle. In 1334, the Oberhasli region was invaded by Bern and the castle was besieged. After Bern took the castle, the prisoners were freed, though the barons retained the castle.</p><br>
<p>After the Bernese victory in the Battle of Laupen in 1339, the barons were forced to pledge the Unspunnen and Rotenfluh castles as part of the peace settlement. A few years later, in 1342, the Habsburgs redeemed this pledge and then pledged it on to their followers, including the lords of Interlaken, Hallwyl and Kyburg. During the Battle of Sempach in 1386, Bern occupied the area and in 1397 paid off the mortgage. In the next year they sold the castle and lands to the von Seftigen and von Scharnachtal families, who were citizens of Bern. In 1418 and again in 1515, Bern bought the lands back from the families heirs. In the 1440s, Emperor Frederick III rose Julien von Brawand to the Lord of Unspunnen. Bern placed the Unspunnen lands directly under the citys authority in 1529. In 1762 the lands were transferred to the administration of Interlaken and the castle was allowed to fall into disrepair. The ruins became famous through the Unspunnenfest in 1805 which led to regular cleaning and repairs of the ruins.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church building located at 404 DeSmet Street, now 312 2nd Avenue, South West, in Rugby, Pierce County, North Dakota. Designed in the Late Gothic Revival style of architecture by noted Grand Forks architect Joseph Bell DeRemer, it was built in 1903 to 1905 of local fieldstone with concrete mortar and wooden gables and roof. Its stained glass windows which came from Holy Trinity Parish in New York City and arrived in poor condition were refitted by members of the congregation. Around 1968 the church closed and remained vacant until 1991 when a local undertaker bought it. On December 3, 1992, it was added to the National Register of Historical Places.</p><br>
<p>Today the building is home to the Victorian Dress Museum and Boutique, which features reproductions of Victorian dresses and accessories.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church building located at 210 C Avenue, South, in Minnewaukan, Benson County, North Dakota. Designed in the Gothic Revival style of architecture by Fargo architects The Hancock Brothers, it was built by local artisan Otis Kolstad in 1903 of local fieldstone with concrete mortar and wooden gables and roof. It features a stone bell tower over the side entrance. In 1935 the building was sold to Union Gospel Tabernacle, an Assemblies of God congregation which shared it with St. Peter Lutheran Church. In 1965 it was sold to Evergreen Masonic Lodge No. 46, A.F. and A.M., which did extensive renovations, including superimposing the Masonic square and compass emblem over the circular stained glass window. In 1983 the North Dakota Masonic Foundation deeded the property to Minnewaukan Historical Society, Inc., which has restored it and removed some of the changes made by the Masonic Lodge. On September 9, 1994, it was added to the National Register of Historical Places. Today it is called the Stone Church Museum and is still owned by the Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Holy Communion, Episcopal is an historic stone Episcopal church building located at 116 North Minnesota Avenue St. Peter, Minnesota, United States. Designed by noted ecclesiastical architect Henry Martyn Congdon of New York City in the Gothic Revival style of architecture, it was built in 1869 of Kasota limestone. It features buttresses and a steeply sloping gabled roof with smaller gabled eye-windows on each slope of the roof. On May 19, 1983, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Episcopal service in St. Peter was held on October 27, 1854 at the home of St. Peter&#39;s founder Captain William Bigelow Dodd and his wife Harriet. Bishop Jackson Kemper officiated at the service which was attended by 37 people. Mrs. Dodd was instrumental in inviting Bishop Kemper to St. Peter. A parish was soon established and the first church a wood-frame structure was built in 1855 near where the current stone church stands. The Rev. Ezra Jones was the first rector of the congregation, he was succeeded by Rev. Edward Livermore who was rector at the time the current church was constructed. The bell from the first church was placed in the tower of the new church and has rung on the death of every American president since Abraham Lincoln. The bodies of Captain Dodd, his wife Harriet, and two of their children—Willis Gorman Dodd and Harriet Virginia Dodd—lie buried in a grave behind the present church.</p><br>
<h2>Current status</h2><br>
<p>The church is still an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota. Its current rector is the Rev. Tom Harries.</p><br>
<p>The West Northwall Firn is a glacial body near the peak of Puncak Jaya  which is a mountain in the Sudirman Range, western central highlands of Papua province, Indonesia. The glacier is situated at an elevation of approximately 4,750 m and is 3 km north of the summit tower of Puncak Jaya.</p><br>
<p>The Northwall Firn split into several separate glaciers since 1936, the largest two remnants being the West Northwall Firm and the East Northwall Firn. Research presented in 2004 of IKONOS satellite imagery of the New Guinean glaciers indicated that in the two years from 2000 to 2002, the West Northwall Firn had lost a further 19.4% of its surface area. An expedition to the remaining glaciers on Puncak Jaya in 2010 discovered that the ice on the glaciers there is about 32 m thick and thinning at a rate of 7 m annually. At that rate, the remaining glaciers in the immediate region near Puncak Jaya are expected to last only to the year 2015.</p><br>
<p>The West Northwall Firn is a remnant glacier that was once part of an icecap that developed approximately 5,000 years ago. At least one previous icecap also existed in the region between 15,000 and 7,000 years ago, when it also apparently melted away and disappeared.</p><br>
<p>The Sir John Robinson Almshouses (commonly the Daybrook Almshouses are a collection of twelve two-bedroom cottages erected in 1899 on Mansfield Road, Daybrook, Arnold, Nottingham.</p><br>
<p>The almshouses are charitable low-rent housing provided and maintained by the Sir John Robinson Homes charity (England and Wales Registered Charity No. 217941) to enable fully retired elderly people over the age of 60 years (who are able to care for themselves) to live in Daybrook.</p><br>
<p>Sir John Robinson of the Home Brewery built the almshouses and Daybrook Laundry in memory of his son John Sandford Robinson, an amateur jockey, who died in a horse-racing accident on 21 April 1898, aged 30 years.</p><br>
<p>King George V visited the almshouses on 24 June 1914.</p><br>
<p>Speed the Plough is a farm in Amherst County, Virginia near the village of Elon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The farm represents a succession of farm buildings from about 1799 to 1940. Its main house, a two-story brick structure, was built for William Dearing . Dearing held about fourteen slaves on the farm prior to the American Civil War. The property was sold out of the Dearing family about 1915 and the land was converted to an orchard by the Montrose Fruit Company, abandoning the house and most buildings. The land and house were later acquired by Rowland Lea . His partner, George Stevens , built a stone summer residence, the Rock Cottage, on the property. Several other buildings have been renovated for residential use and comprise a small village in what are now pasture lands.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<h3>Main house</h3><br>
<p>The main house was built about 1850, a two-story brick single-pile Greek Revival building in the I-house pattern with a main block and a one-story ell to the rear. The interior follows a central-hall plan, with a living room to the west of the hall and a dining room to the east. The house was expanded in 1927 by the Lea family with a porch to the front and a one-story addition on the north with a sitting room-dining room and a kitchen.</p><br>
<h3>Rock Cottage</h3><br>
<p>The Rock Cottage was built by local builder Samuel Belk about 1933 at some distance from the main house. George Stevens engaged an architect from New York to design the house as an English hunting lodge on the site of the farm&#39;s old kitchen. The 1-1/2-story house is built in Tudor Revival style in stone. The L-shaped house is built around a central chimney. The main room is a "great hall" that functions as a living and dining room, with half-timbered interior walls and exposed roof beams. The room is furnished with bookshelves, one of which opens to reveal a hidden spiral iron stair to the basement. A kitchen is adjacent. The stair hall has stairs to the upper level and the basement. A master bedroom suite lies beyond the stair hall on the main level. There are two bedrooms and two baths on the upper levels. The basement features a large room with a fireplace under the great hall suitable for dancing, while other rooms were used for entertainment. A matching garage is nearby, with space for three cars with a basement beneath. An apartment is attached. The basement was to be used as a workroom and includes a fireplace. The apartment comprises two rooms with a bathroom. A basement, originally used to store wood for heating, has been converted to additional living space. The entire complex is surrounded by a dry-laid stone wall.</p><br>
<h3>Other structures</h3><br>
<p>A chicken house, dating to about 1933, is set between the garage and the main house. The one-story structure is built of fieldstone. The 1933 bank barn is set on a concrete foundation with a small milking parlor and accommodations for horses on the lower level and a farm equipment storage loft above. A small apartment is incorporated into the southwest corner. A circa 1940 tenant house made of concrete block is located to the southwest of the barn. A 1933 pump house, of wood frame construction on a concrete foundation, has been enlarged for use as a dwelling. A tennis court, which replaced an old barn, is nearby, built about 1933 with a clay court, now replaced with asphalt. Other structures include a concrete water reservoir and storage sheds.</p><br>
<p>The springhouse is the oldest structure on the farm, built around 1799 and restored in 2006. It is a dry-laid fieldstone structure. The site also includes the Dearing family cemetery, surrounded by a wrought iron fence and comprising the graves of William Dearing (d. 1862), his wife Jane (d.1910) and son Clarence (d.1907). A small African-American cemetery features a few headstones and rock markers. A second African-American cemetery is believed to exist, but its location is unknown.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The property, at the base of Tobacco Row Mountain, was first owned by Duncan Graham of Caroline County, who sold 710 acre to George McDaniel in 1788, who in turn sold 353 acre to Philip Burton in 1799. After an inheritance dispute, the property, now 282 acre, passed to John R. Irvine of Bedford, Virginia, who sold it in 1835 to Charles Ellis of Richmond. The land is believed to have been used to cultivate tobacco for Ellis company, Ellis and Allan. Ellis partner John Allan was the foster father of Edgar Allan Poe. William Alexander Dearing acquired the land from Ellis&#39; estate in 1850. By then the property was already known as "Speed the Plough," a saying associated with success or luck in farming, and the name of a fifteenth-century English song.</p><br>
<p>Dearing raised tobacco and corn on the property, building the house about 1850 and other structures through 1856. Dearing was killed in 1862 at age 42 in a feud with neighbor Valentine Rucker. For unknown reasons Dearing carried a grudge against Rucker and ambushed him, firing and failing to kill Rucker with his gun. Rucker returned fire, fatally wounding Dearing. Rucker was tried and acquitted of murder. Dearings widow Jane managed the farm, raising three children. Jane died in 1910, and her only surviving child, Addie Dearing Cox, sold the land to the Montrose Fruit Company of New York in 1915. The land was planted with apples and peaches. In 1927 the company had to divest itself of the land and sold the property to the Montrose Fruit Companys presidents sister and her husband, Theodora Stevens Lea and Rowland Lea, who had lived on a nearby farm from 1915. The Leas were active locally, and many family members moved to Virginia to help manage the farm, including Phyllis Lea and Theodora Lea Girling, Rowland Leas sisters, who lived at neighboring "Fairlea." Another brother of Theodora visited the farm. George C. Stevens was a New York representative of Lloyds of London, and liked the place so much that he entered into partnership with the Leas and built the Rock Cottage. The farm eventually passed to Philip Girling, son of Theodora Lea Girling and the orchard manager, whose family continues to own the land.</p><br>
<p>The property is operated as a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>The farm was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 2007.</p><br>
<p>Salubria Lodge No. 31 is a historic Masonic building located at 85 W. Central Street in Cambridge, Washington County, Idaho. Built in 1922 to replace an earlier meeting hall destroyed by fire, it is a two-story building made of red brick and concrete with a sloped roof over an attic space designed by Watkins & Thompson. Above the entrance are two stained glass windows depicting the emblem of the Masonic order. A metal roof covering has been added to protect the original wooden roof from heavy snowfall.</p><br>
<p>On March 9, 1990, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Salubria Lodge No. 31, an active lodge in the 9th Masonic District of the Grand Lodge of Idaho, still meets in the building.</p><br>
<p>The lodge derives its name from the former town of Salubria, where it originated in 1893.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church building located at 405 2nd Avenue, North East, in Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota. Designed in the Late Gothic Revival style of architecture by British-born Fargo architect George Hancock, it was built 1884 of local fieldstone exterior walls and a wooden roof. Early parish records contain several assertions that George Hancock modeled the church after Christ Episcopal Church  which had been opened in 1881, but if he did, it was only in a very general, not specific way. Hancocks later work St. Stephens Episcopal Church  is much more closely related to Christ Church, Medway. On December 3, 1992, Grace Episcopal Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Current status</h2><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is still an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota. The Rev. Canon Kevin Goodrich, OPA, is the priest-in-charge.</p><br>
<p>The Harnsberger Octagonal Barn, also known the Mt. Meridian Octagonal Barn, is located near Grottoes, Virginia. Built about 1867, the barn is possibly the only example of such a barn in Virginia, as the building style was more popular in the expanding midwestern United States in the immediate post-American Civil War era than in economically-depressed Virginia. The octagonal style was popularized in 1853 by A Home For All, or the Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building by Orson Squire Fowler.</p><br>
<p>The barn was built for Robert Samuel Harnsberger in 1867, following the example of his brother Stephen, who had built an octagonal house nearby in 1856. The barn represents an adaptation of the octagonal concept to the site, incorporating elements of traditional bank barns. The barn&#39;s builders encountered difficulty in assembling and fitting the barn, requiring the assistance of other carpenters.</p><br>
<p>The wood frame barn retains the traditional bank barn functions of a central wagon floor with hay lofts to either side, rather than a functional distinction between each of the sides as suggested by Fowler. As with a bank barn, accommodations for cattle are on the lower level, with the stalls arranged in a line rather than radially.</p><br>
<p>The barn was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 8, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church building located at 152 Ramsey Street, West in Pembina, Pembina County, North Dakota. Designed in the Late Gothic Revival style of architecture by Fargo architect George Hancock, it was built in 1886. Unlike all the other churches in the Episcopal Churches of North Dakota Multiple Property Submission , it was built of brick instead of local fieldstone. The brick is yellow and was made locally by the Pembina Brick Company. The church building is one of only three extant building built of this brick. In 1937 Grace Church closed due to declining attendance and the building was sold by the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota to the local Methodist congregation. Today it is the Pembina Pioneer Memorial United Methodist Church. On September 2, 1994, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Grace Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>Pembina Pioneer Memorial United Methodist Church is still active. Its pastor is the Rev. Gary H. Johnson.</p><br>
<p>The Congressional Club , is an historic residence, located at 2001 New Hampshire Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the U Street Corridor neighborhood. The organization it hosts, which is the official club of Congressional spouses, was created in May 1908 with the Sixtieth Congress passage of HR22029. The Congressional Club is the only club in the world to be incorporated by an act of Congress.</p><br>
<p>Since 1912, the club has hosted a luncheon honoring the First Lady of the United States. It is the largest annual event sponsored by the Club.</p><br>
<h2>The House</h2><br>
<p>Built and dedicated in 1914, the neoclassical clubhouse is designated as a contributing property to the Greater U Street Historic District, an historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The building was individually listed on the Register in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>The Cookbook</h2><br>
<p>The major fundraiser of the club is the Congressional Club Cookbook, or C. It contains recipes from the members, for example Bess Truman&#39;s Ozark pudding.</p><br>
<p>The First Broiler House, also known as Mrs. Wilmer Steele&#39;s Broiler House, is preserved at the University of Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station near Georgetown, Delaware as an example of a chicken house that was widely used to raise broiler chickens in Delaware during the 1920s. An example of an individual-colony house, the 16 ft square wood frame building housed 500 chickens. It was provided with a coal stove.</p><br>
<p>Celia Steele of Oceanview, Delaware was the first person in Delaware to raise chickens specifically for meat production, separately from her laying flock that was primarily meant to produce eggs. The wife of a Coast Guardsman stationed at the Bethany Beach Lifesaving Station, she raised her first flock of 500 in 1923, selling 387 two-pound chickens for 67 cents per pound. In 1924 she started 1000 chickens. In 1925 Mrs. Steele started 10,000. The industry expanded from there, reaching 3 billion chickens per year fifty years later in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The broiler house has been moved from its original site at the Steele farm and has been repaired. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1974.</p><br>
<p>Shanthi Sagara , also called Sulekere  Asia’s second largest irrigation tank. It is located in Kerebilchi and Kagatoor of Channagiri taluk of Davanagere in Karnataka, India.</p><br>
<h2>Importance of the Lake</h2><br>
<p>Shanti Sagara tank, created by an embankment with sluice outlets, built in 1128, the tank has a history of 800 years. It took three years to construct the massive tank. The tank, which has a water spread of 6,550 acres, has a circumference of 30 km. It has a total drainage basin of 81,483 acres. It irrigates 4,700 acres of land and more than 50 villages are benefited by it.</p><br>
<p>The tank receives the drainage of twenty square miles. All of the drainage pours into the gorge where it is built (the main stream bearing the name of Haridra, a tributary of the Tungabhadra). The embankment is constructed between two hills, and embankment is of no great length; it is around 950 ft, but it is of stupendous width (Max 120 ft,min 70 ft), height and strength, though not quite straight. The main road connecting between channagiri and Davanagere pass through on this embankment. It has resisted successfully the floods of centuries, but owing to the great pressure of the volume of the water in tank.</p><br>
<p>It has two sluices. That to the north is called the "Sidda", and that to the south the "Basava". Notwithstanding the damaged state of the sluices and the great force of the water when escaping through them, the embankment has always remained firm and uninjured, a satisfactory proof of the solidity of the structure.</p><br>
<p>If required (as during drought) the tank can be fed by surplus water from Bhadra Dam&#39;s right bank canal.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The name is derived from "Sule" courtesan and "kere" tank.</p><br>
<p>Sulekere renamed to Shathi Sagara, where "shanthi" is the first name of princess Shantava, who constructed this tank. "Sagara" means Ocean, as this tank is one of biggest tanks in Asia, so the tank is compared to an ocean.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The construction of the tank is assigned to 11th or 12th century, and remains are pointed out, said have belonged to Svargavathi, the city was submerged, its king Vikrama raaya, who had no children, adopted the son of gowda of Billahalli.</p><br>
<p>This youth received name of Ragi raaya. But a daughter was subsequently born to the king in reward for his devotion to Shiva. She was called Shantava. The king&#39;s daughter, who, having formed a connection with some divinity, built, as an expiatory act, the tank, which submerged the town of her father, who had cursed her as a prostitute. Hence the name "Sulekere".</p><br>
<p>There is stone to be dated shaka 1311, in the tank.</p><br>
<p>History also has it that the Lt. General Sir Richard Hieram Sankey, Chief Engineer of Mysore state, once commented during 1856, that the region (where Sulekere once was) was not ideal for the construction of a tank, but was still built all thanks to the engineering expertise of people of those times. It is indeed remarkable, he commented.</p><br>
<p>Sulekere tank, 40 mi round, which receives all the streams from the south, and from which Haridra issues to the north.</p><br>
<p>The south and west are crossed by lines of hills, as it mentioned in The Imperial Gazetteer of India in 1903-4.</p><br>
<p>On 22 September 1952 an adult Eel (Anguilla bengalensis) measuring 44 ft was found in a drag net in the Sulekere reservoir. After the construction of Tungabhadra dam, the migration of the eel from sea to the upper reaches of the Thungrabhadra is prevented, on 17 April 1955.</p><br>
<h2>Drinking Water Supply System</h2><br>
<p>Drinking water is supplied from Shanthi Sagara to Chitradurga, Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board (KUWS&DB) has funded 80 crore to this project.</p><br>
<p>Presently, Chitradurga city is getting 30 million litres of water a day from the Shanti Sagara Water Supply System.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Its one of the best picnic spot in Davanagere district. Recently a guesthouse has been built near the tank, the aim of the project would be to attract foreign tourists. Facilities for boating and allied activities would also be provided soon.</p><br>
<h3>Aqueduct</h3><br>
<p>An aqueduct designed by Sir M Vishweshwariah which is almost parallel to this embankment, which will carry Bhadra Dam&#39;s right bank canal from one hill to another. The length of aqueduct is around 0.5 km, width is around 17 ft. This setup is unique where same two hills are used for embankment for tank and be pillars to pass a canal. This place is beautifully captured in Ninne Preetisuve Kannada film song.</p><br>
<p>Shanthi Sagara is at 40 km doddaghatta Davanagere, and 21 km from Channagiri</p><br>
<h3>Siddeshwara Temple</h3><br>
<p>To the north of the embankment of the Sulekere tank is a small hillock on which is situated the temple of Siddeshwara which is approached through a stone gateway supported on either side by a two-handed dvarapala, having a mace in one of his hands.</p><br>
<p>The temple has numerous features, for example the pillars, the stepped tower, etc., which preserve the Hoysala Empire tradition on granite. But the style is not of Hoysala Empire. An inscription placed near the main doorway bears the date S 1468 or 1546 AD. On the deepastambha is the standing image of a bhakta having the look of a Vijayanagara Empire period image. It may well be surmised that the temple belongs to the early Vijayanagar Empire period when perhaps the Hoysala Empire tradition was yet lingering.</p><br>
<p>To the south-west of the main temple is the shrine of the goddess Durga having a garbhagriha and a porch of rude Dravidian pillars. The doorway is in imitation of Hoysala Empire type. The image however is s rude relieve of Kapalika form with two hands, the right holding a padma, and left a kapala. On the pedestal are carved the figures of two lions with that of an elephant between them.</p><br>
<p>On the bund of the Sulekere, around 10,000 assemble for the Siddesvara rathothsava, held for 3 days in February.</p><br>
<p>A large festival is held at the temple at the time of Maha Shivaratri.</p><br>
<h2>Fish Seed Production</h2><br>
<p>There is a Fish seed Production Farm of the Department of Fisheries, Government of Karnataka, located below the tank which has an area of 4.15 hectare. Majority of the ponds in the farm are in dilapidated condition and are weed infested. Very few ponds, presently, are in use.</p><br>
<p>There are about 400 fishermen actively engaged in fishing throughout the year.</p><br>
<p>The lake is surrounded Kerebilchi village from three sides of village. Kerebilchi is also the main village which is full connected with this lake ( kerebilch, Kere=lake, Bilchi=Name of Fish which is inside this lake)</p><br>
<p>The present fish production is estimated to be 140 million tonnes valued at 35.00 lakhs at 25/- per kg. The fishermen land their fish catches at Hosahalli (more than 100 fisher man live over there), Ittige, Somalapura, Kerebilchi, Kagathur, Basavarajapura and embankment site. The average fish catch per day ranges from 150 – 400 kg, the peak fish production is being during the monsoon months. The indigenous fish fauna account to 20% only. The average annual fish catch for a fishing unit works-out to about 3.5 million tonnes. The fish harvested, to an extent of 20% is sold locally and rest is supplied to fish merchants which they normally market at Davanagere, Harihar,Nallur, Channagiri and Santhebennur. The fish is transported in baskets / gunny bags without ice. The fisher women are generally engaged in the marketing of fish locally.</p><br>
<p>Nowadays there is no population. shanthi sagar is very beautiful place a very big village is in the side of shanthi sagar that&#39;s called kerebilchi nearly 20 thousand of population of this village.</p><br>
<p>The Indian River Life-Saving Station was established at Bethany Beach, Delaware in 1876 to rescue mariners shipwrecked along the Delaware coast by the United States Life-Saving Service. The facility was designed in 1874 as a 1-1/2-story board-and-batten frame structure with decorative brackets supporting overhanging eaves in a version of the Queen Anne style. The structure sheltered a surfboat which could be quickly rolled out through double doors facing the beach and down a ramp to the water&#39;s edge. The main station house remains of what was once a complex that included a barn, stable, meat house, feed house and a privy. An auxiliary boathouse stood about a mile to the south. The original plans for the station survive.</p><br>
<p>The facility was moved back from the water&#39;s edge in 1877 due to coastal erosion. In 1915, the United States Life-Saving Service merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form what is known today as the United States Coast Guard. The station was converted to a Coast Guard Station and occupied until the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962, which left it partially buried in sand. A new Coast Guard station was built nearby in 1964. The original station was restored by the Delaware Seashore Preservation Foundation, and is now operated as the Indian River Life-Saving Station Museum by Delaware State Parks as part of Delaware Seashore State Park.</p><br>
<p>The Indian River Life Saving Service Station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Eagle Tavern is one of the earliest surviving structures in Watkinsville, Oconee County, Georgia, United States. The Eagle Tavern was built circa 1801 but possibly as early as 1794. In the early part of the 19th century, the city of Watkinsville, Georgia was on the frontier of Creek and Cherokee Indian Territories. The site of the tavern may also have been the site of Fort Edwards, a gathering place for settlers seeking protection from attack by the Creek and Cherokee. The tavern was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 13 May 1970.</p><br>
<p>Today, The Eagle Tavern is open weekly for tours of its rich history and ghostly tales. The Eagle Tavern has also been a popular spot for many paranormal investigators, due to the success rate of evidence during investigations. William Bender, author of Haunted Atlanta and Beyond proclaims it might be the "most haunted building in North Georgia."</p><br>
<p>Boomer Lake is located in the city of Stillwater, Oklahoma and was completed in 1925. The lake, as an artificial reservoir created by damming Stillwater Creek, serves several purposes such as cooling the local power plant and providing entertainment and recreation. Boomer Lake has a surface area of 251 acres, watershed area of 8954 acres, shoreline length of 8.6 miles, shoreline development ratio of 4.17, and mean depth of 9.7 feet.</p><br>
<p>In 2011 Boomer Lake underwent severe drying due to lack of water, with water levels dropping as much as 15 ft and the shoreline receding up to 40 ft in some areas.</p><br>
<p>The lake serves as a great source for fishing and contains many varieties of fish such as largemouth bass, hybrid bass, saugeye, channel catfish, flathead catfish, crappie and many species of sunfish.</p><br>
<h2>David L. Payne gravesite</h2><br>
<p>The grave site of David L. Payne, a famous figure in pre-statehood history of Oklahoma is on Boomer Lake, where he was reinterred in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Fish Advisory</h2><br>
<p>In 2010, the Oklahoma State Department of Environmental Quality issued a fish advisory for the largemouth bass in the lake, with elevated mercury levels detected in the lake&#39;s population of largemouth bass. Other species of fish do not fall under the advisory. The advisory cautions against eating more than two servings per month of bass longer than 19 inches in length, and suggests children and women of childbearing age should restrict consumption to two servings per month of fish between 16-19 inches. As of early 2014, this advisory remains in effect.</p><br>
<p>The Owendoher River  is a small river in southern County Dublin, Ireland, the largest tributary of the River Dodder, and a part of the River Liffey system.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The Owendoher rises in two main branches. The larger branch flows from Glendoo / Glencullen valley, and meets the second, in turn formed from two streams, one sometimes called Kilakee Stream, from the slopes of Killakee Mountain, and the other Glendoo Stream, from west of Glendoo Mountain. The two branches merge near Rockbrook Cemetery, along with another small stream from Woodbrook and Piperstown, and the Owendoher flows north to Ballyboden, and on to Rathfarnham, receiving the Whitechurch Stream.</p><br>
<p>The Owendoher joins the River Dodder south of Bushy Park near the former settlement of Butterfield, just south west of Rathfarnham village.</p><br>
<p>There were historically a number of mills on the Owendoher and its tributaries; none now operate.</p><br>
<h3>Bridges</h3><br>
<p>As the Owendoher now passes, in its lower reaches, through heavily developed areas, it features many bridges - from where the river joins with the River Dodder to its source in the south:</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - Dodder View Road - R112</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - Butterfield Avenue - R114</p><br>
<p>Pedestrian bridge - Glenbrook Park to Willbrook Road</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Otterbrook housing development</p><br>
<p>Pedestrian bridge - Fairbrook Lawn to Willbrook Road</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - Fairbrook Lawn to Willbrook Road/Ballyboden Road</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge (gated) - beside Boden Wood housing development to Ballyboden Road</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Boden Wood housing development to Ballyboden Road</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Edenbrook Court housing development to Ballyboden Road</p><br>
<p>Pedestrian bridge - Willowbank Drive to Ballyboden Road</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - Ballyroan Road to Ballyboden Road - R817</p><br>
<p>Abandoned bridge</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Hillside Park housing development to Ballyboden Road</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Owendoher Lodge housing development to Ballyboden Road</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Private residence</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Owendoher Haven housing development to Ballyboden Road</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - Ballyboden Way to Taylors Lane/Ballyboden Road - R113</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - Scholarstown Road to Ballyboden Road - R115</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Springvale housing development to Edmonstown Road</p><br>
<p>Pedestrian bridge - Springvale housing development to Edmonstown Road</p><br>
<p>Pedestrian bridge (wooden) - Crossing at old clothes mill</p><br>
<p>Pedestrian bridge (wooden) - 2nd crossing at old clothes mill</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - M50</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Private residence</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Edmonstown national school to Edmonstown Road</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - Edmonstown Road - R116</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Kilmashogue Cemetery</p><br>
<p>Service road bridge - Private residence</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - Tibradden Road</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - Cruagh Road (lower end) - R116</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - Cruagh Road (upper end) - R116</p><br>
<p>Road bridge - Pine Forest Road - R116</p><br>
<p>The Collins Potato House is located near Laurel, Delaware, one of the last surviving examples of its building type. The southern part of Delaware saw a sweet potato boom from 1900 until blight struck in the 1940s. In order to store the crops, potato houses were built. The Collins house was the first to be built in the Little Creek Hundred region and dates to the late 19th century. Measuring 19 ft by 30 ft, the two-story balloon-frame structure consists of a central aisle flanked by bins on both levels. There are five bins per side. An interior stair provides access to the first floor. Freeze protection was provided by a coal stove. Wall construction is in three layers, with interior planking, sheathing and weatherboard siding. The front elevation on the west side features door at the first and second floors, while the rear elevation has a door at the first floor and a window at the second. Small windows are in both gables for ventilation.</p><br>
<p>The Collins Potato House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1990.</p><br>
<p>Cabo de Rama is a fort in Goa, India.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Portuguese claimed the Cabo de Rama Fort after defeating the Raja (King) of Soonda and renovated it subsequently. In the past, the fort has switched hands between Hindu, Muslim monarchs and the Portuguese and witnessed many battles in history. The present rickety structure with turrets and rusty cannons is a leftover of the Portuguese. The Portuguese equipped it with 21 guns and military barracks, as well as commandant quarters and a chapel. It was abandoned when the Portuguese left this place. Later, this fort housed a government prison till 1955 and was abandoned again. Today, this fort is in ruins, but is a popular tourist attraction of Goa.</p><br>
<h2>Attractions</h2><br>
<p>Inside the Cabo de Rama Fort, there is the church of Santo Antonio which is in excellent condition and is still used by devotees. The white church and the black fort provide a photographic picture of stark contrast. People come here to pray and just enjoy the mystical atmosphere of the fort. Cliffs drop steeply to the sea provide a panoramic outlook of the surrounding areas, at the western side of the fortress. The fort provides majestic views of the entire length of Colva beach and the Canacona stretch.</p><br>
<h2>Sleep</h2><br>
<p>Cabo De Rama beach is made up of a few small beach coves and one larger one. There is currently only one accommodation option in Cabo De Rama and it at the boutique end of the scale which is fitting for such a visually dramatic location.</p><br>
<p>The Cape Goa - Cabo De Rama Beach - 18km from Agonda beach - info@thecapegoa.com - checkin: 1pm - checkout: 11AM - Price range: Rs. 12,000 -18,000.</p><br>
<p>The Cape Goa is located above a small beach cove, with four spacious cottages nestled into the rock, each with a Jacuzzi, at Cabo De Rama beach. There is also a bar & restaurant with an amazing ocean view.</p><br>
<p>Sunday Island is a small island, lying about 15 km south-east of the Muiron Islands, in the Exmouth Gulf of north-western Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Sunday is a low, sand and limestone, 11 ha island vegetated mainly with beach spinifex, pigface and low shrubs. Other recorded plants include large pigweed, caperbush, limestone wattle and goat&#39;s foot. The average annual rainfall is about 300 mm. The island’s high conservation value is recognised by its inclusion in the Muiron Islands Marine Management Area.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supported about 2000 breeding pairs of roseate terns, well over 1% of the world population, when it was surveyed in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Little Red Water Lake is located in Highlands County, Florida, 0.33 mi northeast of Lake Sebring and about the same distance south of Lake Joe. This lake is a natural freshwater lake that is very irregularly shaped. It has a 313.34 acre surface area. It is very marshy in spots; the northwest portion of the lake is almost entirely marsh.</p><br>
<p>The entire north side of the lake is lined with residential housing and parts of the lake are bordered by citrus groves. A public boat ramp is located near the lake&#39;s northwest section. Little Red Water Lake is connected to a number of area lakes by canals. One canal leads northeast to Lake Bonnet and another leads south to Lake Sebring. Public boating and fishing are allowed at this lake, but it has no public swimming areas.</p><br>
<p>Responsible body: private</p><br>
<p>Foster&#39;s Mound (22 AD 503) is a Plaquemine culture archaeological site located in Adams County, Mississippi northeast of Natchez off US 61. It is the type site for the Foster Phase (1350-1500 CE) of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture chronology. It was added to the NRHP on September 2, 1982 as NRIS number 82003091.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Foster&#39;s site has two platform mounds and is located on the northern bank of St. Catherine Creek near its confluence with the Mississippi River. The largest mound, Mound A, is 3 m in height and 30 m by 30 m at its base and has had a plantation house on its summit since the 1790s. Its dimensions were originally smaller but it was enlarged to accommodate the veranda of the plantation house. Mound B is 220 m to the south across a large plaza area. It is an amorphous blob about 1.5 m at its highest point. It has been seriously eroded by the creek and is barely recognizable as a rectangular platform mound. The site sat at a major crossroads in Precolumbian times, because of its location on the original route of the Natchez Trace, directly connected to Emerald Mound to the northeast and the Grand Village of the Natchez to the southwest, and its proximity to the Mississippi River. The site was excavated in 1971-72 by Jeffrey P. Brain as part of the Lower Mississippi Survey for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Harvard University. Pottery recovered from beneath the mounds was found to be proto-Natchezan and was instrumental in defining the protohistoric Foster Phase (1350 to 1500 CE) of the Plaquemine culture chronology.</p><br>
<p>The Islesford Historical Museum and Blue Duck Ships&#39; Store are related historical exhibits on Little Cranberry Island in Maine, within the boundaries of Acadia National Park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Blue Duck Ships Store was a ships chandlery, built about 1850 by Edwin Hadlock. The chandlery operated until about 1875, when it became a store, the Isleford Market, then apartments after 1912. Sometime later, George Hadlock, Edwins son, sold the building to William Otis Sawtelle, a physics professor at Haverford College who spent his summers on the island. Sawtelle was a founder of the Islesford Historical Society, and after 1919 he maintained the store as the headquarters for the society and as a museum. Sawtelle named the store the "Blue Duck Ships Store." In 1927 a new facility was built to be a museum. The Islesford Historical Museum took over the Blue Duck collection, which included ship&#39;s manifests, historical artifacts and genealogical information. Such collections and purpose-built museums were unusual at the time, and the Islesford Historical Museum represents one of the first of its kind.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Blue Duck Ships Store is a 1-1/2-story frame building measuring about 28.5 ft by 49 ft, restong on a rubble stone foundation. The plain weatherboarded structure sits at the waters edge, with an irregular pattern of windows, most of which were replaced in the early 20th century. Doors are placed in the sides and ends, some crowned with a simple pediment. The main floor houses a variety of rooms of differing size and changing function, with a central stair to the upper level, which is used for museum storage.</p><br>
<p>The Islesford Historical Museum is a 1-1/2 story fireproof brick structure built in 1927 in the Georgian Colonial Revival style. The building is arranged with a 60 ft by 30 ft main block and a 30 ft by 25 ft subsidiary block, both with hipped roofs. The main block has two prominent interior chimneys and a formal entrance with a semicircular dormer-fanlight. The museum rests on a quarry-faced random ashlar stone base.</p><br>
<p>The buildings, the Sawtelle gravesite and 1.3 acre were acquired by the National Park Service in 1948. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 30, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Old Brick House, also known as Biloxi Garden Center, was built around 1850 as a modest family home by John Henley, a former sheriff and mayor of Biloxi. The house is situated on Back Bay in Biloxi, Mississippi. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1987. Although heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the house was restored and re-dedicated in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built on property acquired by Jean Baptiste Carquotte from the Spanish government as a land grant in 1784.</p><br>
<p>When John Henley built the house, he used heart-pine lumber for the flooring and three layers of brick in the outer walls. The stout, brick construction allowed the structure to survive through 150 years of hurricanes and storm surges. The house is one of the oldest buildings in Biloxi.</p><br>
<p>The house had become neglected in the mid-1950s, but was salvaged by Biloxi Garden Clubs and was acquired by the City of Biloxi to serve as a museum and a venue for receptions and public gatherings.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, the house was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina when it was inundated with seven feet (2.1 m) of water from the storm surge. But, the structure survived and was restored to be historically accurate. As of 2011, the Old Brick House was one of only two antebellum homes still standing in Biloxi.</p><br>
<h2>Note</h2><br>
<p>The date of the Spanish Land Grant and spelling of the Carquotte name was not consistent in all references.</p><br>
<p>The Historic Roman Catholic Properties in Mobile Multiple Property Submission is a multiple property submission of Roman Catholic properties in Mobile, Alabama, that were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places. The submission covers cemetery, church, convent and other religious properties that are historically or architecturally significant.</p><br>
<p>Mobile was founded as the first capital of the French colony of Louisiana under the direction of Pierre Le Moyne dIberville. It was established by his brother, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, in 1702 to gain control over Frances Louisiana claims. Mobile’s Roman Catholic parish was established on July 20, 1703, by Jean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier, as a parish of the Diocese of Quebec. It was the first Catholic parish established on the Gulf Coast of the United States.</p><br>
<p>The Diocese of Mobile was established in 1829, with Michael Portier appointed its first bishop. During his thirty-year tenure he began many of the projects that led to what remains of Mobile&#39;s Catholic architectural and historical legacy. He was responsible for the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception that still stands today and his own house. He also founded Spring Hill College, the oldest Catholic college in the Southeastern United States and the third-oldest Jesuit college in the United States. Catholicism remained the dominant form of Christianity in Mobile until the American Civil War. Protestantism grew in the city from then until World War II, when more than 89,000 people, mostly Protestant, moved into the city to work for war effort industries. From that point on Catholicism was a minority, although still sizable, denomination. The structures listed in this multiple property submission reflect the best-preserved reminders of this Catholic legacy.</p><br>
<p>The building at 20–22 Marlborough Place in the seaside resort of Brighton, part of the city of Brighton and Hove, is a 1930s office building originally erected for the Citizens&#39; Permanent Building Society. The "elegant" Neo-Georgian premises are now occupied by a branch of the Allied Irish Bank, which opened in the 1980s. Designed by John Leopold Denman, "master of this sort of mid-century Neo-Georgian", the three-storey offices contrast strikingly with their contemporary neighbour, the elaborate King and Queen pub. The building features a series of carved reliefs by Joseph Cribb depicting workers in the building trade—including one showing Denman himself. It is a Grade II Listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Brighton developed into a fashionable resort in the 18th and 19th centuries, with Old Steine as one of its focal points. This was at the southern end of a large area of poorly drained, low-lying open space which later became known as Valley Gardens. The first residential development outside the four-street boundary of the ancient village was in 1771–72, when North Row was built on the west side of the open land. It was renamed Marlborough Place in 1819. One old building was incorporated into the street: a farmhouse which was refronted in the Georgian style and became the King and Queen pub.</p><br>
<p>The pub and most of the buildings north of it, as far as the junction with Church Street, were redeveloped in the 1930s. A local architect, he went into practice in 1909 and designed several buildings in the local area from the 1920s onwards. Considered "a master of the mid-century Neo-Georgian style", he could also handle other styles capably; but he chose Neo-Georgian for his work at Marlborough Place: it offered a "strict contrast" to the gaudy and eclectic King and Queen, rebuilt the previous year by another firm of Brighton architects, Clayton & Black.</p><br>
<p>The building was ready later that year, and it was occupied by the building society until the postwar period. By the 1980s, it had been taken over by Allied Irish Bank.</p><br>
<p>The offices were designated a Grade II Listed building on 26 August 1999.</p><br>
<p>The building is within the Valley Gardens Conservation Area, one of 34 conservation areas in Brighton and Hove. Brighton & Hove Council described it as a "fine individual building" within a mixed series of structures of various ages which do not form a unified composition, and noted that it fits in well with the older (18th- and 19th-century) buildings in the area because of its "sympathetic scale, massing and proportions". The council considers that should the building ever become vacant, there would be a "strong presumption against demolition" because of its importance in the context of the conservation area.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Denman designed the building in a "well-mannered but individual Neo-Georgian style". The walls are of red brick with some Portland stonework. The brickwork is laid in the stretcher bond pattern. The roof, in which there is attic space, is laid with pantiles. The façade is symmetrical, consisting of five bays each with one window on the first and second floors. At ground-floor level, there are entrances in the outermost bays flanking three large round-headed windows, all recessed into a slightly projecting stone-faced section. The windows above the entrances are taller than the others and have pediments above them supported on corbels. The other windows are plain sashes, although those at second-floor level have bands and panels of brick around them. Below the attic storey is a stone cornice topped by a brick parapet with decorative urns at each end. The mansard roof, in which three dormer windows are set, "gives a Scandinavian air". An elaborate clock with a decorative case projects prominently from the façade at first-floor level.</p><br>
<p>The "elegant" On the left window, a hat-wearing John Leopold Denman is shown with a set of architectural plans, in discussion with another man. Other reliefs include a flat cap-wearing man laying bricks and a man sawing a piece of wood. They were carved by Joseph Cribb, a long-time collaborator with Denman who was working with him at the same time on the offices of the Brighton & Hove Herald newspaper in Pavilion Buildings, a short distance away. The carvings are in good condition with "no overall risk" of deterioration.</p><br>
<p>The Bass Island Brownstone Company Quarry, also known as the Basswood Island Quarry, on Basswood Island in Lake Superior was operational from 1868 to 1893. The brownstone was first used for construction of the second Milwaukee County Courthouse, now demolished. The quarry, now filled with water, is about 200 ft long and about 25 ft deep. Blocks of sandstone remain, together with the rusting remains of quarrying machinery. All company buildings and workers&#39; cabins have disappeared.</p><br>
<p>Other buildings built with the quarrys product include the old Chicago Tribune building, the Landmark Chapel at the Forest Home Cemetery and St. Pauls Episcopal Church, both in Milwaukee. The quarry was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 1978.</p><br>
<p>Lacul Morii  is the largest lake in Bucharest, with an area of 246 ha. The lake is approximately 6 km from the center of Bucharest  and is located between: Polytechnic University of Bucharest neighborhood to the East, Crangaşi and Giulești districts at North, Militari district at South. The type of it is accumulation lake, made in 1986 mainly to protect the city against floods.</p><br>
<p>It is also a recreation area.</p><br>
<p>It provides a constant flow on Dâmboviţa river in the capital.</p><br>
<p>The lake was built by a dam 15 m high, with a central body of concrete, earth dams extended lengthwise with a total length of 7 km. Lake volume is 14.7 million m³, with a flood mitigation portion of 1.6 million m³, beyond the normal retention. Effectively, to mitigate flooding, the lake volume can be increased when floods are predicted.</p><br>
<p>Making a lake near an urban area required decommissioning of existing uses, including demolition and decommissioning of a church.</p><br>
<p>On the south of Lacul Morii there is a peninsula.</p><br>
<h2>Lacul Morii Island</h2><br>
<p>On the north part of the lake is situated Lacul Morii island, the only island of Bucharest.</p><br>
<p>On the island volunteers planted 475 trees in 2011.</p><br>
<p>EcoTrend.ro, April 20, 2011</p><br>
<p>The island hosted several big music concerts.</p><br>
<h2>Water-sports, Shows, Concerts and Festivals on Lacul Morii</h2><br>
<p>The lake is used as a recreation area and there are boat and water-sport contests and shows including air shows.</p><br>
<p>Coke Live Music Festival and other concerts were organised on Lacul Morii area.</p><br>
<p>Windsurfing is very popular on Lacul Morii. There are windsurf courses on the lake, but water-ski, skijet and other water sports are also popular.</p><br>
<p>Lacul Morii is mentioned in poetry "Pe Lacul Morii" by Ana Blandiana.</p><br>
<h2>Projects for Lacul Morii</h2><br>
<p>There are projects to make Lacul Morii a travel destination.</p><br>
<p>There are also projects to make the Lacul Morii area a modern residential, commercial and business area.</p><br>
<p>Another project is a highway tunnel which will link Lacul Morii to the Civic Center (Piața Unirii) and the A1 freeway.</p><br>
<p>McDiarmid Falls is a waterfall on Grouse Creek in Wells Gray Provincial Park, east-central British Columbia, Canada. It is located 100 m downstream from Moul Falls and 150 m upstream from Grouse Creek&#39;s confluence with the Clearwater River.</p><br>
<p>Grouse Creek rises from snowmelt, a lake and springs at a pass between Trophy Mountain and Table Mountain. It flows 18 km west before tumbling over Moul Falls and McDiarmid Falls. The creek drops a total of 150 m in its last 1 km as it has eroded into the escarpment of a volcanic plateau.</p><br>
<h2>Naming</h2><br>
<p>McDiarmid Falls was named officially in 2000 and refers to Garfield (better known as Mac) and Cecile McDiarmid, a pioneer family of the Clearwater Valley. They moved to the area in 1944 and purchased 160 acres of land just south of Grouse Creek. In 1956 they purchased a separate property of 70 acres beside the Clearwater River and adjacent to both Moul Falls and McDiarmid Falls. Both waterfalls are just inside the expanded 1997 boundaries of Wells Gray Park. In the late 1940s, the McDiarmids established several cabins along the Clearwater River and their guiding business attracted many guests to the fabulous river fishing. In 1950, the McDiarmids started construction of Trophies Lodge which opened for business in 1953. Their guests stayed a night at Trophies Lodge, then were taken by horse down to the Clearwater River to stay in one of the fishing cabins for a week or longer. The McDiarmids prepared and served gourmet meals in this remote area and even provided nightly entertainment because Cecile was a trained opera singer. Some of their guests were renowned, including H.R. MacMillan, president of the forest company MacMillan Bloedel; he visited twice a year with an entourage of business friends and owned property on the Clearwater River from 1949 to 1972. When a logging road was built along the Clearwater River in 1965, the fishing was virtually destroyed within a few years. By 1973 the fishing cabins had been abandoned and the McDiarmids closed Trophies Lodge as a business, but continued to live in the large log building. Cecile died in 1986. Mac lived alone in his lodge until 1995 and died at the age of 92 in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Grouse Creek is the fourth name for the stream that forms McDiarmid Falls. No other Wells Gray Park place name has been changed more times. Surveyor Robert Lee referred to it as Beaver Creek on his maps drawn in 1912 to 1914. After the area was settled, the stream became known as Grouse Creek because of the profusion of blue grouse that inhabited these forests. The waterfall and creek were called Moul starting in the 1930s, referring to George William Moul, a nearby homesteader from 1915 to 1918. In the 1980s, locals gradually reverted to using the Grouse Creek name, even though “Moul Creek” appeared on all the maps. The Ministry of Highways erected a “Grouse Creek” sign on the Clearwater Valley Road bridge in 1990 which confused travellers even more. The following year, the Friends of Wells Gray Park requested a ruling from the Geographical Names Office in Victoria. After an investigation of local and historical usage, a decision was announced in favour of Grouse Creek. Moul Falls remained unchanged.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The trail to Moul Falls starts at a well-signed parking lot on Clearwater Valley Road (also called Wells Gray Park Road). A foot bridge crosses Grouse Creek above Moul Falls and the trail continues downhill to McDiarmid Falls and the Clearwater River.</p><br>
<p>In winters that are very cold and snowy, McDiarmid Falls freezes from top to bottom. The best access is using snowshoes.</p><br>
<p>Monte San Parteo  is a mountain peak located in Monticello, Haute-Corse, Corsica. Situated between the valley of the River Melaja Tartagine and the valley of Fiumi di Regino, the mountain rises to 1,680 m.</p><br>
<p>San Parteo straddles the communes of Pioggiola and Feliceto. It is part of a mountain range that marks both the entire northwestern part of the Regional Natural Park of Corsica and the western part of Giunssani. This chain includes some remarkable peaks, mainly Capu Ladroncellu (2145 m), Monte Corona (2144 meters), the Capu a u Dente (2025 meters), Punta Radich (2012 m), Monte Grosso (1937 meters) and San Parteo, and form a large part of the casket of Giunssani.</p><br>
<p>Until 1935, an Easter Monday procession took place in a chapel, now in ruins, situated at 1600 meters altitude in the San Parteo. The chapel was dedicated to Saint Parthée (San Parteu), a fifth-century saint who was very popular in the Giunssani.</p><br>
<p>Although not the highest, the San Parteo is not easily accessible. Some take a path from Feliceto, but this route has become notorious because of large landslides. An unmarked mountain path is said to "scale the east flank of the cirque and follows the ridge to the summit, from where you follow the spine of another ridge west to rejoin the waymarked trail to Mausoleo."</p><br>
<p>The Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay Islands Important Bird Area comprises a cluster of disparate sites centred at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula, and the southern end of Port Phillip, in Victoria, south-eastern Australia. As well as providing core wintering habitat for orange-bellied parrots, it is important for waders, or shorebirds, and seabirds.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Sites included in the Important Bird Area (IBA) are:</p><br>
<p>Portarlington sewage treatment works</p><br>
<p>Swan Bay - 30 km marine embayment with intertidal flats fringed by saltmarsh</p><br>
<p>Edwards Point - 4 km sandspit with coastal woodland, heathland and saltmarsh</p><br>
<p>Duck Island - small sand and saltmarsh island</p><br>
<p>Swan Island - 140 ha sand island, with coastal scrub and saltmarsh</p><br>
<p>Rabbit Island - small saltmarsh island</p><br>
<p>Freshwater Lake - small ephemeral lake, fringed by herbland</p><br>
<p>Lake Victoria - 139 ha shallow saline lake with extensive mudflats bordered by saltmarsh and sedgeland</p><br>
<p>Mud Islands - tight group of three low, sandy islands, with a total area of 50 ha, with shrubland, saltmarsh and mudflats</p><br>
<p>Pope&#39;s Eye - small artificial island with timber platform and navigation beacon</p><br>
<p>South Channel Island - small artificial island</p><br>
<p>Wedge Light - timber platform with adjacent navigation beacon</p><br>
<p>Swan Bay and Mud Islands are within the Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site. Swan Bay, Mud Islands and Pope’s Eye are in the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The group of sites has been identified as an IBA by BirdLife International because it supports significant numbers of critically endangered orange-bellied parrots and vulnerable fairy terns, and over 1% of the world populations of blue-billed ducks, chestnut teals, Australian white and straw-necked ibises, red-necked stints and silver gulls.</p><br>
<p>The IBA regularly supports over 20,000 waterbirds, including 4000 to 15,000 waders and over 10,000 nesting seabirds. The largest Victorian colonies of white-faced storm petrels comprise some 12,400 nesting burrows on Mud Islands and South Channel Island. Mud Islands also has important breeding colonies of Australian pelicans, silver gulls, greater crested and Caspian terns, and ibises. Australasian gannets nest on artificial structures such as Pope’s Eye and Wedge Light. The waders move regularly between the various sites to feed and roost but rarely move to the other areas of Port Phillip, which are identified as separate IBAs.</p><br>
<h2>Other animals</h2><br>
<p>The marine waters adjacent to the IBA contain populations of Australian fur seals and Burrunan dolphins. Australian sea lions are also present in the area. Coastal whales such as southern right and southern humpback entering the Port Phillip Bay may appear off the reserve as well.</p><br>
<p>The Crump Theatre is located in downtown Columbus, Indiana, at 425 Third Street, is part of the Columbus Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The theatre is owned by the Columbus Capital Foundation and periodically used as an event space for a variety of acts, including musicians, comedians, and paranormal investigators.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The theatre came into being in 1889 when Charles Franklin Sparrell was hired by John Smith Crump to add a theatre to an existing building at this site. Alden Meranda completed a renovation in 1941 that transformed the building into its current Art Deco appearance. In 2013 a theatre consulting firm, Jones & Phillips, was hired by the Columbus Redevelopment Commission to complete a study on the viability of the theatre.</p><br>
<h3>Theatre beginnings, 1871-1889</h3><br>
<p>In 1871, Columbus, Indiana attorney Colonel John A. Keith contracted for a two-story building to be erected on the south side of Third Street between Washington and Franklin streets (today, 425 Third Street). This building was known as Keiths Arcade, but it is not known who the architect and builder were. Keiths Arcade was called an "arcade" building because of its architectural design, and had nothing to do with any amusement descriptive qualities of the word. A series of arches graced the facade, wrapping around doors and windows. Three arches adorned the top, and within the three arches, the words, "Keiths Arcade A.D. 1871", were incorporated into the upper part of each arch. From 1871 to 1889, merchants and businessmen from all walks of life rented out space in Keiths Arcade. Todays Republic newspaper got its start there in April, 1872. During the 18 years the building functioned as Keiths Arcade, it was home to restaurants, a plumbing supply store, law offices, and a clothing shop, to name a few.</p><br>
<p>On 3 December 1888, Col. John Keith was placed in the Indianapolis Insane Asylum. At the time, Keith owed Frank T. Crump $28,000. In order to satisfy the debt, David Stobo, Keiths guardian as assigned by the court, had most, if not all, of Col. Keiths property sold at auction. The auction took place in the north room of the Courthouse, 28 January 1889. John Smith Crump, younger brother of Frank, acquired the Keith&#39;s Arcade property for $6,000.</p><br>
<h3>Crump's New Theatre, 1889 - 1920</h3><br>
<p>Within weeks after the purchase, John Crump hired architect Charles Sparrell to draw up plans and specifications for a theater building to be constructed and adjoin the south side of the Keiths Arcade building. In March, 1889, Crump and Sparrell traveled to Madison, Indiana to tour Louis Holwagers Grand Opera House. Crump was so impressed with this theatre that he had Sparrell design his new theater based on this design. On 22 April 1889, the contracting firm of Keller and Brockman was awarded the construction job.</p><br>
<p>Sparrell and Crump worked together in the selection of nationally renowned theatrical firms that specialized in interior theater design and scenic painting. In June, the Sosman & Landis Scene Painting Studio, Chicago, Illinois, was chosen to create scenic backdrops for the theatre. Thomas G. Moses was hired to paint the drop curtain. C. S. King was selected to build the necessary stage mechanisms needed to move the large, scenic panoramas and backdrops on and off stage. These artists were noted in the 1880s as being among the "finest in the country." Also, C. S. King had worked on some of the finest opera houses in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.</p><br>
<p>During construction of the theater auditorium, the old Keiths Arcade portion of the building was remodeled. The section underneath the middle arch became the entrance way to the theater. Ground floor rooms on either side of the entrance way were rented out for business purposes. Rooms on the second floor were rented out to day boarders. The words, Keiths, Arcade, A. D. 1871, embedded within each arch at the top of the building, were removed and replaced with "Crumps New Theatre." Crumps New Theatre opened October 30, 1889 with the Norcross Opera Company, Chicago performing the play, "The Pretty Persian," by well known French composer Charles Lecocq.</p><br>
<h4>Community reception</h4><br>
<p>The opening of Crumps New Theater was a milestone in Columbus performing arts history. After several attempts to establish a venue for the performing arts in the town, Crump&#39;s New Theatre succeeded where its predecessors had failed. It was the first, stand alone opera house in Columbus. It was also the first theater designed around the needs and demands of the traveling shows of the day. The size of the stage could accommodate the large, hand painted scenes that were tailored specifically to a particular play, and carried by the more prestigious national troupes touring the country.</p><br>
<p>Crumps New Theatre functioned as an opera house and Vaudeville theatre for a period of about 30 years and resisted the move to become a Nickelodeon theatre. During the peak of Columbus fascination with "moving pictures" (1908), there were six theaters in downtown Columbus (Crump included), with five showing motion pictures.</p><br>
<h4>1903 redecoration</h4><br>
<p>The Theatre was redecorated over the summer months of 1903. Henry Ranje, who had done some fresco work at the Bartholomew County Courthouse, was hired to oversee the redecorating. Bink Schnur created a new drop curtain which replaced the old one which had scenes of Sicily, Italy. Walter Doup, a Columbus bill poster, and stage mechanic at the theater, updated the mechanics of moving the large sceneries on and off stage. The auditorium was also repainted using green, rose, and gold colors.</p><br>
<h4>First motion pictures</h4><br>
<p>The first motion pictures shown at the Theatre occurred on September 12, 1905 with the screening of "The World In Motion," followed by a short movie that was filmed in Columbus. The movie showed workers leaving the Reeves and Company factory and the Columbus Fire Department driving up Washington Street. The official date recognized by Crump Theatre personnel at the time, however, was Thanksgiving Day, 26 November 1914, with the showing of "When Broadway Was A Trail," and "In The Lion&#39;s Den".</p><br>
<p>By the end of the 1910s moving pictures dominated the amusement offerings at the Crump. Eventually a second projector was needed so that longer motion pictures could be shown, which eventually required a substantial renovation in order to accommodate a larger projection room. However, before John Crump could realize his plan to enlarge the Theatre he died in 1920 at the age of 76.</p><br>
<h3>The Hege and Company remodel, 1920 - 1934</h3><br>
<p>The first remodel of the Crump Theatre was put in motion less than two weeks after the death of John Crump. With the theater passing to his children, they elected to stay true to their father&#39;s wish. On 10 February 1920, plans were hand carried to Indianapolis for approval by the State Board. On 2 April 1920, the contracting firm of Hege and Company were awarded the job with their bid of $35,000 (the company also acted as architect for this remodel). The Opera House Flats, a two apartment layout situated on the second floor, were vacated of all tenants, and the Clarence Howe Barber Shop and Columbus Realty businesses relocated to other parts of town. Work on the remodel began ten days later.</p><br>
<p>The 1920 remodel was a massive undertaking. Everything from the stage forward, to the Third Street sidewalk, was gutted (the east and west exterior brick walls were left untouched). The facade of the old Keiths Arcade building was removed entirely. What had originally been two separate and unique buildings (Keiths Arcade and the actual theater auditorium adjoining at the rear) became one. Heavier, balcony support beams replaced the posts inside the ground floor auditorium so that a second movie projector could be used. A mezzanine on the second floor was added. The box office was relocated to the front center of the ground floor mezzanine, and two new exits were installed on either side of the box office. The entire ground floor was ripped out and replaced with poured concrete. New carpeting and seats were installed. The mens and womens washrooms remained on the ground floor.</p><br>
<p>Keeping in tune with the latest and greatest in movie equipment, in September, two new movie projectors and a new screen, a Minusa measuring 18 x 14, were installed.</p><br>
<p>During this first remodel, the theater was closed for five months. On Sunday, 3 October 1920, the Crump Theatre held an open house for public inspection. More than 3,000 people turned out to see the changes. According to reports in the Evening Republican newspaper, the Crump could now accommodate 2,000 people (more realistically, between 1,200 and 1,400 persons). With the addition of the upper mezzanine, dances were also a possibility. The theater was officially reopened the following evening, 4 October 1920. A sold out house watched "One Hour Before Dawn," starring H. B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson and "An Eastern Westerner," starring the ever-popular Harold Lloyd.</p><br>
<h3>The Rembusch remodel, 1934 - 1935</h3><br>
<p>By 1929, the Crump Theatre was under lease to F. J. Rembusch Enterprises out of Shelbyville, Indiana. Frank Rembusch came to Columbus between 1918 and 1920 and bought the Crystal Theatre, 416 Fifth Street, renaming it the American. On 1 April 1923, he leased the Crump Theatre from the Crump heirs. With the advent of movies offering synchronized sound in 1929, in March of that same year, Rembusch installed new Moviephone equipment. The first all talking movies were shown at the Crump on 11 March 1929 ("Redskin," starring Richard Dix, and "That Party In Person," starring Eddie Cantor).</p><br>
<p>On 30 December 1931, the Crump heirs sold the theater to Louis Holwager of Madison, Indiana for $50,000. It was Holwagers Grand Opera House in Madison, Indiana, that John Crump had used as a model for his theater. There was talk of another major renovation, but nothing transpired. On 7 February 1934, the Crumps lease fell to Truman Rembuschs Syndicated Theaters (Frank Rembuschs son). One week after the lease change, the second renovation commenced. At the top of the list was a new sound system. Less than one week after the lease was signed, a new RCA high-fidelity sound system and a new Vocalite movie screen were installed. The old acoustic panels were removed and replaced with an acoustic tile product called Nu-wood.</p><br>
<p>This second remodel took five months. All of the work was contained to the interior, and the Crump remained open during most of the work. More comfortable seating was added on the main floor and balcony. All aisle seats now provided lighting. New carpeting was laid in the Lobby. The air conditioning system was updated. The bottom half of the interior Lobby walls were lined with black glass tiles incorporating aluminum frames for displaying one sheet movie posters. All remodel work was completed by 13 July 1934.</p><br>
<p>With the interior remodel work completed, Truman Rembusch turned his attention to the Third Street facade. Before any work commenced, however, on 6 November 1934, a contest was announced to change the name of the theater. Rules were simple: write the new name of the theater on a piece of paper and turn it in to management. First Place winner would be paid $25. Second Place winner would receive $15. Third and Fourth Place winners would receive $5. More than one thousand entries were submitted.</p><br>
<p>On 14 November 1934, the winners of the contest were announced to a packed auditorium. Louis Holwager, Truman Rembusch, and C. E. Rogers (Crump Theatre manager) were present, along with the panel of judges, consisting of Mrs. Philip R. Long, Mrs. Mary O’Bryan, Mayor H. Karl Volland, mayor-elect John L. Hosea and Walther E. Simmen. The winners were:</p><br>
<p>4th Prize - Mrs. Ralph Conrad for the name "Betsy Rogers."</p><br>
<p>3rd Prize - Tom Elrod for the name "Pioneer."</p><br>
<p>2nd Prize - Mrs. Jason Lacy for the name "Bartholo-di."</p><br>
<p>1st Prize - Mrs. Elsie Harris for the name "Von Ritz."</p><br>
<p>Although the Von Ritz was selected as the new name for the Crump Theatre, many in the community felt it wrong to cast aside the name of the theater&#39;s founder. Thus, the Von Ritz was never used.</p><br>
<p>In December 1934, new Sonotone equipment for hearing-impaired patrons was installed. A wide, vertical white stripe along the back of seats marked the designated seats.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in early 1935, work on the facade began. The old canopy was removed and replaced with a three piece marquee incorporating, for the first time, electric lights. Interior work also continued. A new mezzanine was located off the balcony. This new mezzanine included card tables.</p><br>
<p>Shortly after the completion of this second remodel, on 26 April 1935, Grammy Hall of Fame inductee Ethel Waters performed on the Crump Theatre stage.</p><br>
<h3>The Meranda remodel, 1941 - 1942</h3><br>
<p>In order to align the Crump Theatre more with the other two movie houses in Columbus (The Rio and the Mode), the third remodel of the Crump Theatre began in late 1941. The Rio, 416 Fifth Street, designed by architect Alden Meranda, and the Mode Theatre, 315 Washington Street, designed by architect William Pereira, both offered art-deco facades. Syndicated Theatres owner Truman Rembusch, who controlled all three theaters, felt it was time to give the Crump a new look. Comparing the looks of the Crump to either the Rio or the Mode gave one the impression that the Crump was terribly outdated. Even with the addition of the three piece marquee in 1935, the Third Street front still looked bland and old. It was time to bring the Crump Theatre up to contemporary standard.</p><br>
<p>Rembusch selected Meranda to do the work. Meranda had designed other theaters owned by Rembusch (the Artcraft, Frankin, Indiana and the Gibson, Batesville, Indiana). A vitrolite front was added. The three piece marquee was removed and replaced with a two piece marquee. Five foot tall letters spelling out Crump were vertically attached, and a single piece marquee running the entire length of the front was installed. Hundreds of individual, incandescent light bulbs pulsed on and off along the horizontal marquee, drawing attention to movie titles and showtimes. The marquee was also back-lit using fluorescent tube lighting. In addition to the exterior work, interior changes were also made. The ticket booth was relocated to the outside. Entrances and exits were placed on either side of the ticket booth. The main floor Lobby was enlarged. Main restrooms were relocated to the upstairs mezzanine. New water fountains were installed in the upper mezzanine. They were light activated and magically shot out a stream of water on bending over and breaking the beam of light.</p><br>
<h3>The Crump Theatre, 1942 - 2013</h3><br>
<p>The end of World War II brought about an incredible boom in industry, housing and disposable income. From 1940 to 1970, the population of Columbus more than doubled in size. Due to the boom and increased population, the Crump Theatre reached its peak in popularity during this time. This popularity began to wane toward the end of the 1960s. As more and more strip malls and shopping centers invaded the suburbs, fewer and fewer people felt the need to shop downtown. In 1968, Columbus Cinemas, a two-plex movie house, opened for business. This, coupled with us becoming more of a mobile society, attendance at the Crump Theatre began to drop off. By the 1980s, the Crump could no longer compete with other local and regional movie theaters.</p><br>
<p>On Sunday, 17 December 1879, a building adjoining the Crump caught fire. The Crump sustained approximately $30,000 in smoke damage. Many historic artifacts were destroyed. The Crump was now owned by MARGRAT, Inc., Truman Rembuschs children. In April 1987, MARGRAT requested a bid from Shultz Excavating Company for demolition of the theater building. News of possible demolition came as quite a shock to the community. In order to keep that from happening, Vernon Jewell bought the Crump. The theaters lease with Kerasotes Theaters was not affected.</p><br>
<p>It was during this time that John Dorenbush, Irwin Management, approached Jewell. Dorenbush said a group of Columbus capitalists were interested in buying the Crump.</p><br>
<p>In May 1994, the Columbus Capital Foundation bought the theater from Jewell and took ownership. After an initial walk through, it was understandable why MARGRAT had sought a bid for demolition. The structure was in terrible condition. Part of the roof had collapsed. The boiler was no longer in working condition.</p><br>
<p>In 1994/95, "Save The Crump", a grassroots coalition, was formed in order to raise money to help stabilize the building. The group raised $150,000, and an additional $25,000 matching grant from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation. Most of the funds went to infra-structure, including a new roof and repair of the boiler system. Funds from the DNR went toward repair of the vitrolite facade and the marquee. A new electrical substation was also added.</p><br>
<p>On 31 January 1995, Kerasotes&#39; lease expired. The company elected not to renew it. The theater continued to operate for another two years as a dollar venue. In 1997, with the closing of the Crump in order to tear off the new roof and put the new one on, it ceased operation as a movie theater.</p><br>
<h3>Recent performances and activity</h3><br>
<p>In 2008 John Mellencamp held a concert in the Crump for a documentary style television show. The last time he played a show at the Crump Theatre was in 1976. There has also been four New Years Eve events featuring local and regional acts put on with help from Columbus native Derick Howard, held at The Crump Theatre. Derick has also helped bring Ohio based band Ekoostik Hookah to the Crump four times and opened for them solo and with his band(Howard, Lewis & Lovins). Those and a few other shows that Derick has helped with have all averaged over 250 in attendance. Another show in recent years was Hoosier Dylan in 2009. It was a concert in which many musicians covered Bob Dylans music, and was produced by Tim Grimm.</p><br>
<p>Another tribute concert performed here was a concert called "Hoosier Springsteen." It was also organized by Tim Grimm, and consisted of many different artists covering the music of Bruce Springsteen. The Crump Theatre is still used for other reasons besides musical performances. There were three performances of the play Arsenic and Old Lace (play) from February 12 to 14, 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Crump Theatre was investigated by Hoosier Paranormal Research in 2006. While there, they captured several instances of Electronic voice phenomenon. It was later discovered that one of the businesses next door to the Crump Theatre was a mortuary. In a later renovation of the theater the area that used to be the mortuary was merged into the theater. It was documented that the EVPs were recorded in this area of the Crump Theatre. The Crump Theatre also held a Paranormal Fright Fest on February 20, 2010.</p><br>
<h2>The Crump Theatre, Feasibility Studies</h2><br>
<p>There have been ten feasibility studies on the Crump Theatre. The first study dates back to the early 1980s when the newly formed Heritage Fund was looking for a project orientation to build an endowment. Upon Mayor Kristen Brown taking office in 2012, in April 2012, she organized the Crump Theatre Six Sigma Team to tie in with her ADVANCE COLUMBUS goals for the city. The Six Sigma Teams objective was to study the prior feasibility studies, determine why they failed, and explore options for Crump Theatre sustainability. This marked the first time such a comprehensive analysis was undertaken. When the teams studies were completed, based upon their recommendation, an outside firm was hired. In May, 2013, the Columbus Redevelopment Commission hired Jones & Phillips Associates, Lafayette, Indiana, to perform the tenth feasibility study.</p><br>
<h2>The Crump Theatre, 2014 -</h2><br>
<p>After completing their nine-month feasibility study, on 24 March 2014, Van and Linda Phillips, Jones and Phillips Associates, Lafayette, Indiana, presented their Crump Theatre findings to the Columbus Redevelopment Commission. The public was invited. During his presentation, Van Phillips pointed out several structural deficiencies that would warrant keeping the Crump Theatre closed. On 1 April 2014, Fire Chief Dave Allmon announced he would not allow the theater to reopen.</p><br>
<p>In the Jones & Phillips presentation, five options were offered. The options range from remodeling the theater to accommodate 300 - 350 people, to demolition of the historic structure (keeping only the vitrolite facade and marquee) and replacing it with a much larger auditorium that could seat 1,000 or 1,200 people (Jones & Phillips Associates presentation can be found on the ). The Crump Theatre steering committee chose to pursue funding for a remodeling to accommodate 350 people. On 3 June 2014, the steering committee presented their recommendations and findings before the Columbus City Council with a price tag of $10.8 million. City Council consensus was the need to see a detailed business plan. On 21 July 2014, the steering committee requested of the Columbus Redevelopment Commission funding allocation for the business plan. Danielle, McClelland, Executive Director of the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, Bloomington, Indiana, was selected as the source for the business plan. The Redevelopment Commission approved funding for the McClelland study and business plan with a lead time of 60 days. The Redevelopment Commission also approved additional funding in the amount of $500 for McClelland to present her plan before the public, Redevelopment Commission, and the City Council. Target date currently is the middle of September, 2014.</p><br>
